Using two new comparative data sets from France, we present the first study of the compared productivity of labor-managed and conventional firms based on large representative samples of firms in a range of industries including services. We offer new stylized facts on labor-managed firms, and our...

The authors investigate the effects on absenteeism of two types of employee sharing plans-profit-sharing and employee share ownership-in 127 French firms over the years 1981-91. Both types of plan were associated with statistically significant reductions in absenteeism. Most effective was the...